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Waterbody (Sweden) – Sinking Road (single/album track)

Reading time: 2 minutes It may be Christmas Eve but here in the NMC workhouse there’s no ...
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Weekend Intermission – 2023’s NMC Alternative Christmas Song – Poly Styrene’s Black Christmas

Reading time: 3 minutes Well there’s an alternative King’s Christmas Broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK ...
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The Brotherhood of Sonic Love (Denmark) – Golden Spells (title track from album)

Reading time: 2 minutes Here’s exactly what you need for a pre-Christmas fix of hard driving rock, ...
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NMC’s Merry Christmas Song! Katzenjammer does The Pogues!

Reading time: 2 minutes No, it isn’t any of John Lennon, Slade, Wizzard, Wham! or Mariah Carey, ...
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Jacob Faurholt (Denmark) – Sad Sad Tears (sample track from the album Burn Burn Here)

Reading time: 2 minutes Jacob Faurholt was here back in April, under the moniker of Statisk Støjwhich ...
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Addendum to Songs of the Year 2023 – Ljug Aldrig ft. Elliphant (Sweden) – Seashells

Reading time: 2 minutes You know how it is, sometimes when you’re drawing up a list of ...
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Nordic Music Central’s Songs of the Year 2023

Reading time: 23 minutes So it’s that time of the year again, the demands of choosing NMC’s ...
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Mall Girl (Norway) – Super Lazy Girl (single/track from forthcoming album)

Reading time: 2 minutes We don’t usually feature artists twice within a month but apart from the ...
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Anette Askvik (Norway) – title track from the album Lyden av Snø (The sound of snow)

Reading time: 2 minutes Not many Christmas songs left now, just a few. This one arrived out ...
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ELBA (Denmark) – I’m a dancer (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Hi ELBA, are you related to Rhythm? And I’m a music reviewer. Nice ...
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Honey Hideout (Denmark) – Goodbyes (single)

Reading time: 2 minutes Honey Hideout conjures up a raft of images. It might be a TV ...
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Ikiranka (Finland) – Kirkonmiehet (Churchmen) – track from the album Sydänmaa (Heartland)

Reading time: 2 minutes Right now I need a calming experience so when I was invited to ...
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Weekend Intermission – Best TV cop series themes – Thin Blue Line (‘Urban City’ by Irya Gmeyner [Sweden]), ‘Hollow Talk’ by Choir of Young Believers’ (Denmark) from The Bridge and the Hill Street Blues theme by Mike Post (USA)

Reading time: 5 minutes Weekend Intermission is our regular feature where we look at an artist or ...
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Liv Andrea Hauge Trio (Norway) – Gullregn (single/track from forthcoming album)

Reading time: 2 minutes We get plenty of bedroom pop on NMC but not so much living ...
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In conversation with Das Body (Norway)

Reading time: 11 minutes A few years ago by chance I came across a video by a ...
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Ceci Noir (Sweden) – Away (single)

Reading time: < 1 minute Well here’s a blast from the past. I reviewed Ceci Noir three ...
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Uno Soul (Denmark) – Time to share (single + video)

Reading time: 2 minutes We’ve had several posts now of Christmas songs and I suppose I should ...
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Nordic Music Central Spotify Playlist #16, October – November 2023

Reading time: 6 minutes We’ve got two month’s worth of tracks for you this time, going back ...
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Even more Christmas songs, 02 December 2023, from Birds are Better (Norway), Eva Hillered (Sweden) and GLIMTVIS (Denmark)

Reading time: 4 minutes They just keep on coming. You’d think it was Christmas. Birds are Better ...
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Pikes (Sweden) – It’s looking up (single)

Reading time: < 1 minute Whenever I see a song title like that I think of the ...
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